"First-edition League banknotes?" Heath looked at the banknote in his hand. He had no idea how Xiuhui had preserved it, but it was in very good condition. Although it still bore some traces of age, those actually increased its value considerably. After all, a completely pristine note would have raised some doubts. Heath did not know much about this world's history and such, but he did know about this banknote, because Sister Ling liked collecting banknotes. Through her influence, he had picked up a few things about them.
Since its founding, the League had issued seven editions of banknotes in total. That was not because the League had only been established recently, but because it rarely changed its banknote designs, so there had only been seven editions altogether. League banknotes were quite valuable among many collectors. Of course, the current banknotes were a different story; they had no collectible value. Even so, some people tried collecting current banknotes, intending to pass them down to later generations to see whether they could leave some wealth for their descendants.
Still, the banknotes all the collectors currently favored most were those from the earlier editions.
Among those, the first-edition League banknotes could be called treasures among treasures. A single fifty-denomination League banknote could fetch over a million League Coins today. That might sound a little exaggerated, but there was no helping it. Not many first-edition League banknotes had been issued in the first place before they were replaced, and most people at the time had exchanged their first-edition notes for the new currency. As a result, very few first-edition banknotes survived.
That also meant the last news of such a banknote appearing had come from an auction house a very long time ago. As someone who liked collecting banknotes, Sister Ling deeply regretted